Dermot O'Leary presides over six episodes of pint-sized jeopardy filmed at Pinewood Studios, where squads of three contestants face off in five dexterity rounds staged inside perfect miniature dioramas. One nominated player gets a single shot at each micro-task; nail it and the team banks up to £50,000, but every extra practice swipe lops 10% off the pot. The survivors of the best-of-five then confront one last microscopic hurdle to convert their shrinking jackpot into hard cash.
The show’s hook is scale: a shrunken cathedral nave becomes a putting green, a toy-sized diner counter hosts a coffee-cup relay, and a model Thames bridge demands the threading of a needle suspended over toy traffic. Brian Blessed’s narration booms like a Roman god watching ants, while the contestants lean in with dental probes, tweezers and the sweaty concentration of bomb-disposal engineers.
ITV burned through the six-episode run between 2 February and 9 March 2019, then quietly shelved the format. NBC bought the rights days later, shot a version hosted by Lil Rel Howery in late 2020 and aired it during summer 2021, while South Korea’s tvN ordered a four-episode outing in January 2020. None of the international remakes returned for a second cycle, leaving the original British run as the only complete record of television’s brief obsession with shrinking money for expanding stress.
Production Details
ITV1 / 1 Season / 6 Episodes / 2019 - Present
Main Cast
Dermot O'Leary as Himself - Host
